Counter-display folding box



J .1. GAFFNEY May 6 1, 924.

COUTER DISPLAY FOLDING BOX Filed Nov. 19. i921.

Patented May 6, 1924.

STATES ltli PTNT OFFECE,

JOHN JOSEPH GAFFNEY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIG-NOR TO NATIONAL FOLDING BOX COMPANY, OE NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION F NEW JERSEY.

COUNTER-DISPLAY FOLDING BOX.

Application filed November 19, 1921.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Josnrn Gerr- NEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Counter-Display Folding Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of folding, usually paper, boxes, or containers, supplied with means, usually therewith integral and called easel braces, for supporting them, as upon a merchants counter, in inclined positions, thereby facilitating display of their contents to customers. Ilhe objects of my invention comprise supplying such easel bracesfrom less material, more easily constructed and manipulated for use, and less conspicuous and more stable than heretofore.

l attain these and other useful objects by constructing` the braces, and connecting them with the boxes, as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan of a cut-out and creased paper blank embodying my invention, some irrelevant parts being broken away.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of one end of a box set up from said blank (irrelevant parts being broken away), and showing my novel easel brace in operative position;

Figure 3 is, on enlarged scale, a central vertical sectional view taken on the line 3--3 of Figure 2, and viewed in the direction of the arrow;

Figure L1 is a similar view of the parts shown in Figure 3, my easel brace being collapsed into comparatively inoperative position.

The blank, preferably integral, is shown in Figure 1, cut out of paper, or other suitable, material in any preferred form, for example that shown in Figure 1, and the mater rial is, where indicated by triple lines,

creased, or otherwise relatively weakened, to promote its there bending or folding,- these operations being well known.

The well known type of box to which my easel brace is shown applied in the drawings comprises a bottom portion, 5, connected by creased portions, 5', 5', with the sides, 6, 6, and` by a creased portion 5, with one end, 7, of the box. `The sides carry, at one end,

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usual types of flaps, 8. The end 7 carries a well known extension, 9, carrying flaps, 9', 9 and 9, the manner of inter-folding which with the extensions, 8, of the sides, 6, to hold that end of the blank in its set up position for box use, is believed to be too well understood for further explanation.

The opposite ends of the sides 6 are, in this instance, provided with familiar tongues 10, 10.

Up to this point my invention is not in volved.

I provide the bottom 5 with a therewith bendably connected, composite, easel-forming extension, comprising a leg member, 11, connected with t-he bottom 5 along a preferably creased, or otherwise weakened, line, 5. The leg 11 is, at its bottom or foot, similarly bendably connected with the bottom or foot of another thereto corresponding leg member, 12, which is, in turn, similarly bendably connected with a member 7, adapted to serve as the end of the box opposite to that designated 7, and provided with means, in this instance slots 12S- 13, with which the tongues 10, 10 cooperate in upholding the set-up blank for box use. rThe folding connection between the legs 11, 12, may be a single creased, or otherwise weakened, line of the constituent material, but l preferably connect the legs with each other by thereto additional, in this instance therewith integral, members 14, 111, respectively connected with 11 and 12 by the intermediate creased materialn at a and b, and with each other along the intervening folding line 15. 1f desired, the end 7 may bendably carry an extension, 16, which may be shaped and proportioned to form a cover for the box, or a display flap, etc. etc.

' From the foregoing 1 believe that the operation of my box and of my easel brace will be readily understood. rl.`he end 7 and its above described therewith coacting parts having been bent, set-up, and interconnected as usual, the leg 11 is bent downwardly away from the bottom, and the leg 12 upwardly toward the bottom until the end piece 7 is in position to serve as such, after which the tongues 10 are inserted into the slots 13, thereby firmly securing 7 to serve as one end of the box. This leaves the legs 11, 12, outwardly projecting as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 to serve as easel supports for the box in its inclined, or display position. The intervening members 14, 14 enable the feet of the legs to be spread apart without collapsing; and the construction is suoli that Whenever desired the legs may be folded together and bent back underneath the bottom of the box as indicated in Fig. 4, thus economizing space in storage when my nclined display is not needed.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new7 and desire to secure by Letters Patent is the following, viz:

1. A counter-display folding paper box comprising a bottom and an end having normally substantially mutually contacting external edges each provided with a therewith integral therefrom projecting angularly thereto bendable leg extension, the said extensions having the bottoms or feet thereof connected With each other by bendable means.

2. A counter-display folding paper box comprising a bottom and an end having normally substantially mutually contacting external edges each provided with a there- With integral therefrom projecting angularly thereto bendable leg extension, the said extensions having the bottoms or feet thereof bendably connected with each other.

3. A counter-display folding paper box comprising a bottom and an end having normally substantially mutually contacting external edges each provided with a there- With integral therefrom projecting angularly thereto bendable leg extension, the said extensions having the bottoms or feet thereof bendably connected with each other by a thereto additional therewith integral member.

4. A counter-display folding paper box` comprising a bottom and an end having normally substantially mutually contacting external edges each provided with a therewith integral therefrom projecting angularly thereto bendable leg extension, the said extensions having the bottoms or feet thereof bendably connected with each other by a thereto additional therewith integral member having an intervening folding line.

JOHN JOSEPH GAFFNEY. 

